Songoftheday 4/23/20 - And you know just what I mean, 'cause tonight you taste like ice cream...
from the albums The Nutty Professor (Original Soundtrack) and Case (both 1996)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #14 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 14
Today's song of the day comes from R&B singer Case (Woodard), who had sang in groups and backup for others until landing a song on the soundtrack to the Eddie Murphy revamp of The Nutty Professor. "Touch Me, Tease Me", which featured a rap cameo from Foxxy Brown and uncredited backing vocals from Mary J. Blige, was written by a bus-full of writers, including Case, Blige, producers Kenny Kornegay and Darryl Young, Inga Marchand, and Jesse Weaver. Released as actually the second single from the soundtrack (after Jay-Z's "Ain't No Ni**a" which will be an upcoming robbed hit), the single was an explicit downtempo come-on track that was the sexy male version of the R&B female groups like SWV and Total...
"Touch Me, Tease Me" became Case's first pop top-40 hit in June of 1996. The song climbed all the way to #4 on Billboard magazine's R&B chart as well. Internationally, the single went to #10 in New Zealand, and was a top-40 hit in the UK at #26. The song helped the Nutty Professor soundtrack top the R&B Albums chart and hit #8 on the main Top 200 Albums sales list. The Case debut album was released in the summer of 1996, with the second single "More To Love", which got to #36 on Billboard's R&B chart, but missed the official pop Hot 100 in America, "bubbling under" the list at #104. The Case album made the R&B Albums chart at #7, while just missing the top-40 on the main list at #42.
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Here's Case and Foxxy appearing live on Video Soul in 1996...
And lastly, the singer live in concert in 2015...
Up tomorrow: R&B quartet are elevating.
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